Thursday 6, May 2004
Location: Französischer Dom, Gendarmenmarkt 5, Berlin Mitte
Public transport: Metro-line 6, Französische Strasse/ Bus 100,200, Unter den Linden-Friedrichstrasse, Airport-Shuttle TXL, Französische Strasse
19.00 - 21.00 Podiumsdiskussion (in deutscher Sprache):
"Integrieren oder Erinnern? Zur Europäisierung der Zeitgeschichte"
Chair: Ulrich Herbert (Universität Freiburg)
Lead lectures:
Konrad H. Jarausch (ZZF Potsdam): "Europäische Geschichte zwischen Nation und Union?"
Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF Potsdam): "Eurhist XX – Ein Netzwerk zeitgeschichtlicher Forschungseinrichtungen in Europa. Entstehung und Ziele"
Interventions:
Catherine Colliot-Thélène (Centre Marc Bloch Berlin/ CNRS, Paris)
Wolfgang Höpken (Georg-Eckert-Institut für internationale Schulbuchforschung, Braunschweig)
Christiane Lemke (Universität Hannover)
Karl Schlögel (Europäische Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/O.)
Friday, 7 May 2004
Location: ZZF Potsdam, Am Neuen Markt 9D, 14467 Potsdam
Public Transport: Potsdam Central Station
9.00-9.30
Opening: Konrad H. Jarausch (ZZF Potsdam)
9.30-12.30 Panel 1: Contested Memories
Chair: Martin Sabrow (ZZF Potsdam)
Lead lecture: Henry Rousso (Institute for Contemporary History, Paris): "History of Memory, Policies of the Past: What For?"
Interventions:
Dragos Petrescu (Romanian Institute for Recent History, Bucarest): "The (still) other Europe. History, identity, and legitimating discourses in southeast Europe"
Stefan Berger (University of Glamorgan): "National historiographies in twentieth-century Europe: How to make them safe for the twenty-first century?"
Pieter Lagrou (Free University Brussels): "Between Europe and the nation: the paradox of the inward turn of contemporary history writing since 1945"
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.00 Panel 2: Multiple Conflicts
Chair: Beatrice Heuser (Military History Research Institute, Potsdam)
Lead lecture: John Horne (Trinity College of Dublin): "War and conflict in contemporary European history, 1914-2004"
Interventions:
Polymeris Voglis (University of Thessaly): "Postwar reconstruction reconsidered: Greece and the reconstruction of western Europe, 1945-1950"
Alfred J. Rieber (Central European University, Budapest): "The origins of the Cold War in Europe - different agendas"
Kiran Klaus Patel (Humboldt University, Berlin): "In search for a second historicization"
Saturday, 8 May 2004
9.30-12.30 Panel 3: Transnational Interactions
Chair: Rainer Hudemann (Saarland University, Saarbrücken)
Lead lecture: Sorin Antohi (Central European University, Budapest): "Homogenizing the Heterogeneous - transnational interactions in contemporary Europe"
Interventions:
Karen Schönwälder (Social Science Research Center, Berlin): "Integration from below? Migration and European contemporary history"
Marsha Siefert (Central European University, Budapest): "Americanization in Europe"
André Steiner (ZZF Potsdam): "Economic consequences of the west European integration process from the fifties until the beginning of the seventies: questions and problems"
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-17.00 Panel 4: Unfinished Political Processes
Chair: N.N.
Lead lecture: Hartmut Kaelble (Humboldt University, Berlin): "The European Union: A case of uncompleted democratization"
Interventions:
Igor Casu (Moldova State Univsersity Chisinau): "Is the republic of Moldova a south east European country?"
Örjan Appelqvist (University of Stockholm): "From Internationale Gruppe Demokratische Sozialisten to the Economic Commission on Europe: tendencies in the reconstruction of Europe 1942-1948"
Martin Conway (Balliol College, Oxford): "The making of democratic order in post-war western Europe 1944-47: The case of Belgium"
17.00-17.30 Coffee break
17.30-19.00 Concluding Discussion
Chair: Thomas Lindenberger (ZZF Potsdam)
Lead lecture: Michael Geyer (University of Chicago/American Academy Berlin): "The Subject of Contemporary European History"
Panelists: Martin Sabrow, Beatrice Heuser, Rainer Hudemann, N.N.